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    <p>You need an <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38549/sql-difference-between-inner-and-outer-join">outer join</a>.</p> <p>If you don't care about the order in which the "won" trophies appear, you could very simply do the following (because <code>winner_id</code> will be <code>NULL</code> for those trophies that have not been won and <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/working-with-null.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>NULL</code> is ordered "after" all other results in a descending order</a>):</p> <pre><code>SELECT * FROM trophies_list NATURAL LEFT JOIN trophies_won ORDER BY winner_id DESC, RAND(); </code></pre> <p>Of course, if when you said that "all trophies that have not been won should be in a random order" you meant you merely didn't care about the order, you can omit the trailing "<code>, RAND()</code>".</p> <hr> <p><strong>UPDATE</strong></p> <p>In response to your comments, I think you're actually looking for something more like:</p> <pre><code>SELECT trophies_list.*, NOT ISNULL(trophies_won.winner_id) AS won FROM trophies_list LEFT JOIN trophies_won ON ( trophies_won.trophy_id = trophies_list.trophy_id AND trophies_won.winner_id = 43 ) ORDER BY won DESC, RAND(); </code></pre> <p>By performing an outer join <code>ON</code> the criteria you're after, you can identify amongst the list of all trophies which match that criteria and which don't. In this case, which trophies have been won by the specified winner and which haven't.</p> <p>The <code>ORDER BY</code> clause then ensures that the results are ordered with those trophies that have been won appearing first, followed by those that have not; within those tiers, the order is randomised (again, if you simply don't care about the order you can remove the <code>, RAND()</code> part which is adding unnecessary overhead).</p>
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    1. COThanks, but is there any way i can only get those from 'trophies_won' with a specific winners_id? I've tried adding 'WHERE winners_id = 43' (for example) in a few places, but this doesn't seem to work.
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    3. COwhen i try it now, it all works fine when the winners_id in the WHERE clause is found, but if it's not found, that trophy in the list doesn't show up at all. Say if the winners_id is not 43, but it has another value, it doesn't get included in the selection.
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